Why can't folks that send their kids to average colleges ever admit it?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know, OP. DH and I both attended a fairly average school (#32 according to US News). And we make 7 figures between us now. I mention this *only* because money seems to be the one thing that DCUM respects, as gross as that is.

Dear God people. A school ranked #32 in the NATION is not an "average" school! There are over 2,000 schools in the country!

+1 ... and approx 70% of the US adult populations DOES NOT have a BA degree or higher. Get some perspective folks! People with college degrees are not average Americans no matter where they went to school.

To the #32 poster, yeah, you're right: William and Mary or University of Rochester truly suck.

hahaha. You are obviously jealous of the PP's 7 figure HH income.

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Anonymous wrote:They always bend over backwards to say it doesn't matter what college you go to (or only graduate school matters), or how it has a great honors program (proven to be a marketing scam), or how some low-status niche major they offer is world class, rattle off a couple rich alums of the hundreds of thousands that are just regular Joes, blah blah blah. It's all so desperate.

Why can't they just admit they raised an Average Eddie who goes to a normal college? ¯\_(?)_/¯

Because I don't see my children as "average Eddies". They are (to me) important and interesting people and I am generally proud of what they accomplish. How is this so hard to understand?

That's good. No one should see their kids as "average Eddies" since as parents we know our kids and their strengths and weaknesses intimately. That said, most kids in the world are average when using the metrics that say colleges use to evaluate applicants. So what?

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Anonymous wrote: Seriously, when you get out of dc (and similar cities) no one gives a damn about prestige.

I want my kids in DC or a "similar city". Smart and successful people want to be around smart and successful people, hence: DC, SF, LA, NYC, Chicago, Boston, Seattle.

Why would anyone give a shit what commoners think? Seriously.

But do your children want to be in a "similar city?" I've got a bright creative son, who hates cities and would probably be happy in some small Kentucky town. I'd be an ignorant fool if I pushed him to live in a city because that's the only place he can find smart and successful people. But since I come from a small town, I know that's not true. And since I've lived in several big cities you mentioned and others around the world, I also know they're filled with lots of materialistic and soulless people too.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I went to the University of Vermont. We had a fantastic time at a pretty average school.
Our HHI is nearly $2M and our net worth is reaching $10M.

Really? Earning combine $2 mil/ year, doing what?

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Anonymous wrote: It's a shame people get so defensive. Oh well, keep embarrassing yourself pumping up your kid's mediocre college.

I'm about a month away from getting my BA. Even though it's a very mediocre college, I'm still very proud of myself because I'm on the verge of accomplishing something that most people in the country never accomplish. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp I've already achieved a higher level of education than most people ever do. I don't see what's embarrassing about that. What a Yale student is to me is what I am to most of the country.

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Anonymous wrote: It's a shame people get so defensive. Oh well, keep embarrassing yourself pumping up your kid's mediocre college.

I'm about a month away from getting my BA. Even though it's a very mediocre college, I'm still very proud of myself because I'm on the verge of accomplishing something that most people in the country never accomplish. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp I've already achieved a higher level of education than most people ever do. I don't see what's embarrassing about that. What a Yale student is to me is what I am to most of the country.

Same PP. Why isn't anyone responding to the comment above? Do you think I'm wrong?

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Anonymous wrote: It's a shame people get so defensive. Oh well, keep embarrassing yourself pumping up your kid's mediocre college.

I'm about a month away from getting my BA. Even though it's a very mediocre college, I'm still very proud of myself because I'm on the verge of accomplishing something that most people in the country never accomplish. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp I've already achieved a higher level of education than most people ever do. I don't see what's embarrassing about that. What a Yale student is to me is what I am to most of the country.

If you think I'm wrong about what I said above, I'd like to hear why.

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If you think I'm wrong about what I said above, I'd like to hear why.

No one is impressed with your BA from Allegheny. Not even the gas station clerk in Meadville.

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Anonymous wrote: It's a shame people get so defensive. Oh well, keep embarrassing yourself pumping up your kid's mediocre college.

I'm about a month away from getting my BA. Even though it's a very mediocre college, I'm still very proud of myself because I'm on the verge of accomplishing something that most people in the country never accomplish. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp I've already achieved a higher level of education than most people ever do. I don't see what's embarrassing about that. What a Yale student is to me is what I am to most of the country.

If you think I'm wrong about what I said above, I'd like to hear why.

If you take out the 1/3 of millennials that failed out of high school (I assume inner-city and flyover trailer trash), about half of the rest have a bachelors degree.

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I'm not sure why you would think honors programs are a scam. Are full scholarships a scam, too? How about being valedictorian at a so-called "average" school? Is that a scam? The most successful people I know went to " average" schools. I don't think OP has had kids go to college yet because her comment is made out of ignorance. Only an ignoramus would make a comment like OP's.

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Anonymous wrote: It's a shame people get so defensive. Oh well, keep embarrassing yourself pumping up your kid's mediocre college.

I'm about a month away from getting my BA. Even though it's a very mediocre college, I'm still very proud of myself because I'm on the verge of accomplishing something that most people in the country never accomplish. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp I've already achieved a higher level of education than most people ever do. I don't see what's embarrassing about that. What a Yale student is to me is what I am to most of the country.

If you think I'm wrong about what I said above, I'd like to hear why.

If you take out the 1/3 of millennials that failed out of high school (I assume inner-city and flyover trailer trash), about half of the rest have a bachelors degree.

Why don't the high school dropouts count?

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Anonymous wrote: It's a shame people get so defensive. Oh well, keep embarrassing yourself pumping up your kid's mediocre college.

I'm about a month away from getting my BA. Even though it's a very mediocre college, I'm still very proud of myself because I'm on the verge of accomplishing something that most people in the country never accomplish. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp I've already achieved a higher level of education than most people ever do. I don't see what's embarrassing about that. What a Yale student is to me is what I am to most of the country.

If you think I'm wrong about what I said above, I'd like to hear why.

If you take out the 1/3 of millennials that failed out of high school (I assume inner-city and flyover trailer trash), about half of the rest have a bachelors degree.

By the way, that's not true. According to this website, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp, only 10% of people drop of high school. That means 90% graduate high school. However, about only about 34% of people graduate from college. 34% of 90% is about 38%. So even if you were to exclude high school dropouts, only 38% of the population has a Bachelor's Degree. Even among white people, the percentage of people with Bachelor's Degree is only 40. You'll also notice that the age-range of people surveyed is 25-29 The vast majority of people who graduate college do so at 22 or younger, so if someone is 25 and doesn't have a Bachelor's Degree, it's safe to assume they'll never get one.

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Was reading today's WSJ and one of Warren Buffetts successors went to Florida State before Columbia Business School. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Combs

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Anonymous wrote:My dd goes to an average college -- it's NESCAC so OP and her ilk would probably consider it average. I do talk about how great it is a lot because dd is happy and I'm so happy I want to share all things that make her college great. I'm not trying to convince or impress anyone. Who does that? Sad.

No NESCAC school is "average"

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I haven't read the replies because the subject line was so obnoxious, but did want to point out that the OP likely went to a subpar school and had a purely vocational major (hotel management, perhaps?), because he/she failed to learn the difference between "that" and "who."

Most unfortunate.